In this blog post I will show you how to expand a Storage Space AKA virtual disk based on Storage Spaces Direct.The first thing is to understand that Multi-Resilient volumes are created differently comparing to a Parity or Mirror volume. A Multi-Resilient volume makes use of two tiers instead of one and therefore when expanding you need to expand multiple tiers.Read More »

In this daily blog series we try to keep you posted on the latest and all interesting announcements of Microsoft Ignite.Our very own, Hans Vredevoort, is on-site in Atlanta at Microsoft Ignite and is visiting deep dive sessions on Compute, Network, Storage and Azure Stack so expect some in-depth content.

Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 GA

Scott Guthrie announced as from 9/26 that Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 is Generally Available. Big thing: Microsoft is adding the commercial version of the Docker Engine into Windows Server 2016.

With more and more details coming available on Microsoft Azure Stack we can see the direction Microsoft is taking and giving us a peek under the hood of Microsoft Azure itself.
Azure Stack will be consistent with Azure and Microsoft is bringing the Azure bits to your datacenter with Azure Stack, we will get the same portal and all the great features (like Azure Resource Manager) it brings us.

The one thing that is not consistent with Microsoft Azure is the fabric layer and in this post I will give some more insight on the infrastructure side.Read More »

Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) is a feature that is designed to provide scale-out file shares that are continuously available for file-based server application storage such as Hyper-V. Scale-out file shares provide the ability to share the same folder from multiple nodes of the same cluster.

In this blog we will go deeper into DNS Settings for Scale-out File Servers, I assume you already have played around with SOFS and know the basics.